If you start a registered charity, then donations are tax deductible. All perfectly legal.

On a side note, if you get enough donations, you can then pay yourself a wage as CEO and have all your first class flights around to charity events covered by the donations. This is what a lot of ex-sportsmen do after they retire. Shane Warne is in trouble for spending 1/2 of the donations on himself for his "charity".

Just did a quick search and he is even more dodgy than I thought. www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/12/shane-warnes-former-personal-assistant-won-raffle-held-by-cricketers-charity

Not true. 30% minimum if you get registered in the first place.

4% or 30% that's really nothing. So all of our hard earned money goes into buying four wheel drives and offices for "administration" people who dont pay tax

A Charity is business just like any other. The only difference is its 'not for profit' meaning that it won't pay dividends or Directors fees to Directors. However, if you really want a scam start a church.

In fact that gives me a great idea. I am hereby starting the "Church of the Holy Kitesurfer."

Our doctrine is simple:

Get out enjoy nature while being attached to anywhere from 4meters to 21meters of sail cloth by 4 or 5 pieces of string leading to an attachment in the waist area.

In order to be baptized into the church you must of at least have been tea bagged down wind at some point while attached to a kite to the point where after you gained control you needed someone to pump the water out of your lungs.

Tithing is 10% of your income paid on each pay day made payable to "Church of the Holy Kitesurfer" to a bank account of my choosing. In return for your hard earned cash the church will pray daily for wind from the "great wind god" so you can kite more often. All you have to do is have faith that by paying your hard earned cash you will get more kiteable days.

I will also set up a Ministry called "Ministry of the Holy Kitesurfer" which will take 70% of all earnings from the church and put towards kiting ministry's work in exotic locations, "Indonesia, Bali, Cook Islands, Mexico, Brazil and other places where me and my family will spend six months of the year kiting and converting heathen brethren to the path of glory, following the "great wind god" with a band of merry ministers wherever he may take us.

All travel will be on "my" (sorry the churches) private jet. All the while paying no tax!

If you are willing to "believe" in the "Great wind God" and want to be part of my grass roots congregation then please PM me and I will give you details where to send your seed money.

Remember that the "Great Wind God" teaches us that if we plant a seed it will grow and you will truly be blessed with more kiting.

Good Winds!

Bless you Brother Simon!